It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...

July 29th, 2013
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Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

July 17th, 2013
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How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

July 15th, 2013

Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

July 8th, 2013
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June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

June 3rd, 2013
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The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...

March 18th, 2013
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Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

March 18th, 2013
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A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

March 4th, 2013
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Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

March 1st, 2013
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The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

February 13th, 2013
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From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

February 4th, 2013
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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

January 14th, 2013
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Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

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Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

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Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

January 1st, 2013
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Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

January 1st, 2013
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Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

January 1st, 2013
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Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

January 1st, 2013
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43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

December 10th, 2012
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

October 1st, 2012
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Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

October 1st, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

August 6th, 2012
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Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

July 30th, 2012
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Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

July 2nd, 2012
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Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

July 2nd, 2012
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It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

June 4th, 2012
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Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

June 1st, 2012
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The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

June 1st, 2012
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Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

May 7th, 2012
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Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

May 7th, 2012
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For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

April 9th, 2012
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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

March 19th, 2012
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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

March 19th, 2012
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Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

February 1st, 2012
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Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

February 1st, 2012
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Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

February 1st, 2012
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The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

February 1st, 2012
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Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

February 1st, 2012
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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

February 1st, 2012
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Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

February 1st, 2012
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Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

February 1st, 2012
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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

February 1st, 2012
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Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

February 1st, 2012
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Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

February 1st, 2012
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As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

February 1st, 2012
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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

February 1st, 2012
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An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

February 1st, 2012
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Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

February 1st, 2012
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